
Grant Canary
CEO of Mast Reforestation
Education
- M.S., Engineering: Design and Management of Processes - Universidad de La Sabana
- Politecnico di Torino M.S., Systems Design- -
Overview
Grant Canary is Founder and CEO of Mast Reforestation.
The company is provides reforestation after wildfire at no upfront cost and supplies seed and seedlings through its subsidiaries Silvaseed and Cal Forest, manages planting crews, and is able to provide project financing by utilizing carbon removal credits.
Mast reforestation grows a majority of California's trees for land managers, and manages the majority of the NW US tree seed supply on behalf of land managers.
Grant has focused his entire career on sustainability—working at Vestas wind energy in China, the US and Denmark, and for the US Green Building Council in its infancy.
He has had one prior acquisition. He founded Biosystems Co., in Bogotá, Colombia that utilized food waste to feed insect larvae for use as industrial fish feed— alleviating overfishing pressure and utilizing food waste. He worked with the acquirer to scale that company to a 60k sq ft insect protein factory.
Grant is a pacific NW native growing up in Oregon playing chess, then poker, then improv. He is a Techstars Seattle Alumni ('16), Mulago Foundation Fellow, and Grist list of 50 Fixers.
He's deeply grateful for the team at Mast, Silvaseed, and Cal Forest that are putting in the work in to build the vision.
Career
- Mast Reforestation - CEO